Karp’s line is best read as a provocation, not a rule: the AI labor market won’t split neatly into “trades” and “neurodivergence,” and most job resilience will still come from *specific* skill bundles (domain knowledge, workflow ownership, supervision/QA, client-facing judgment, regulated responsibility, and hands-on work).
Also, Palantir is not just commenting from the sidelines—its own recruiting materials explicitly market “neurodivergent” talent as an advantage and pitch alternative pipelines, so the soundbite doubles as employer branding and pipeline-building. ([jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/palantir/61eaa54c-e1b7-4064-afad-f7df3d48d652))